Last Week’s Adventures

Lamb Rump

My brother in law came around late last week on a lat minute work trip, which is good because I had lamb rump that I wanted to eat and only one other person to eat it with (he’s a great guy too).  I’ve noticed that the Masterchef website actually has some decent recipes on it that are really quite cookable unlike what you sometimes get with cooking show website recipes (an afterthought offering that is either unduly complicated or poorly represented).  I won’t reprint the recipe here because I didn’t really change much, but it’s at this location on the Masterchef website (just so you can find it in among the advertorial recipes for Coles et al.)

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Imagine my surprise when I logged into my blog this evening to brag about dinner, and noticed that I received a well-above-normal amount of traffic to my bit of the food web.  Seems that New Matilda (imo Australia’s most intriguing, interesting and compelling media outlet) ran an article by cultural studies PhD Tammi Jonas about the parochialism of the barbeque in Australian cuisine.  Coupla hits.  More yesterday than past five days put together.

She has some great points in her article, and it feels a tiny bit silly to participate in discourse about a national identity through food (not that that’ll stop me).  I really encourage you to read the article, because it’s incredibly well written and raises a couple of highly important points.  That said, I challenge anyone anywhere to deny lamb a place in Australian cuisine and (if such a thing exists) our national food identity.  I had a great meal tonight and here’s what I did.